RE: st: Keywords in programming

should, almost certainly, be understood
in context. It will be part of a preamble
that parses what the user types, all
preparatory to a -parse- which brought
everything together.
Here is an example of what we used to do
("those were the days, my friend", etc.):
local varlist "req ex"
local if "opt"
local in "opt"
parse "`*'"
In current Statas, this would be done
this way:
syntax varlist [if] [in]
Thus, in short,
local if "opt"
is equivalent to part of a -syntax- command,
but only as a part of a sequence of statements.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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